It was certainly the hope of South Africa's greatest post-war leader, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, that this would be so. He frequently commented on the need for the countries of the West to climb out of their liberal 'sick-bed', in which he made it plain that, if he had anything to do with it, South Africa would never join them. Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, argued for apartheid - or 'separate development' - with great moral fervors. Whilst his priority was his own Afrikaner people, whom he saw as the standard-bearers of his country's European identity, at the root of his outlook was the perception that South Africa's multifarious peoples could only live in harmony if they lived apart. In view of what is happening now, who can say that he was wrong? Far from wishing to oppress the non-white peoples - whose plurality apartheid, in his understanding of it, fully recognized - Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, aimed to set up arrangements whereby each of them could be provided with a separate territory (a homeland or 'Bantus') within which it could live as it saw fit and develop at the pace it preferred. The project foresaw ethnic self-determination, leading eventually to independent statehood, in a way that would liberate South Africa's Blacks as far as possible from direct political domination by the country's Whites, albeit within an overall framework of White leadership - bearing in mind that Whites were the strongest group and most of South Africa's land surface would remain theirs - where internal peace would be facilitated by the fact that the possibility for the different racial groups to tread on each other's toes would be minimised. At the end of it, whatever limitations the scheme might have laboured under, South African blacks could have looked forward to ethnic sovereignty at least as substantial as that of most of 'independent' sub-Saharan black Africa, and states probably more viable economically, whilst possibly avoiding the kind of tribal domination that prevailed elsewhere. The word never became flesh. Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, was assassinated, and his successors (some of whom may have been implicated in his murder) revamped the National Party, abandoned much of its vision, and ended up appeasing and seeking accommodation with world liberalism. The rest is history.

Verwoerd is often called “Architect of Apartheid” for his role in shaping the apartheid regime's racial ideology and policies when he was Minister of Native Affairs during the early 1950s. While the apartheid program drew upon many existing laws that restricted Africans' mobility and deprived them of access to full and equal participation in South Africa's social, economic, and political life, it was Verwoerd who elaborated apartheid's unique racial ideology and its corresponding policy innovations. Particularly important in this regard was the policy of Separate Development, which went beyond existing policies of residential segregation to insist that Africans could only claim citizenship in the "Native Reserves" - which, under the Separate Development plan, would become nominally independent "Homelands" - that had been carved out of "White South Africa" during the 1910s.The following principal "Apartheid acts" were introduced during Verwoerd’s tenure as Prime Minister:The Promotion of Black Self-Government Act (1958) This law set up separate territorial governments in the 'homelands', designated lands for black people where they could have a vote. The aim was that these homelands would eventually become independent of South Africa. In practice, the South African government exercised a strong influence over these separate states even after some of them became 'independent'. Bantu Investment Corporation Act (1959) This law set up a mechanism to transfer capital to the homelands in order to create jobs there. The Extension of University Education Act (1959) This law created universities for blacks, coloureds and Indians. Physical Planning and Utilization of Resources Act (1967) This law allowed the government to stop industrial development in 'white' cities and re-direct such development to homeland border areas. The aim was to speed up the relocation of blacks to the homelands by relocating jobs to homeland areas. A Republic

During Verwoerd's term in office, South Africa ceased to be a Commonwealth realm under Queen Elizabeth II known as the Union of South Africa, instead becoming a republic in 1961, known as the Republic of South Africa. The creation of a republic was one of the National Party's long-term goals since originally coming to power in 1948; and Verwoerd's antipathy towards the British Crown was long standing; as editor of the newspaper Die Transvaler, he ignored the British Royal Family's tour of South Africa in 1947, with one news item only referring in passing to 'congestion caused by some visitors from overseas'.The opposition United Party and many English-speaking whites of British descent were opposed to a republic, but once again, Verwoerd changed the law to his advantage: He lowered the voting age for whites to 18, and allowed whites in South West Africa to vote. On 5 October1960 a referendum was held in which white voters were asked "Do you support a republic for the Union?" — 52 percent voted 'Yes'. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's government had brought in a rule requiring governments to seek 2/3 approval of the electorate before carrying out a constitutional change, but this rule was ignored: Verwoerd barely managed to cross the 50% threshold. He persuaded many South Africans that given the first assassination attempt on him, Harold Macmillan's Winds of Change speech and international condemnation following the Sharpeville massacre, South Africa would have to go it alone by becoming a republic. Many South Africans of English origin voted for the change believing that South Africa would remain in the Commonwealth, suggesting that there may have been significant numbers of Afrikaners opposed to the change, given that they made up a much larger proportion of the voting population. Verwoerd also managed to persuade them by keeping the system of government almost exactly the same (except that the president would be chosen by both houses). The Republic of South Africa came into existence on 31 May1961, chosen because it was the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging that had brought the Anglo-Boer War to an end in 1902.Following India's assumption of republic status, it was agreed by Commonwealth leaders that being a republic was not incompatible with membership, but that a Commonwealth Realm would have to reapply for Commonwealth membership if it became a republic.At the meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers held in London, Verwoerd argued that apartheid was just a matter of good labour policy. However, a number of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, particularly John Diefenbaker of Canada, denounced apartheid and argued that racial equality was a principle of Commonwealth membership. As a result of widespread opposition from the leaders of non-white New Commonwealth countries as well as Old Commonwealth member Canada and the threat that several countries would resign from the Commonwealth if South Africa's application was approved, Verwoerd withdrew South Africa's application to remain a member of the Commonwealth on 15 March1961. South Africa's membership officially lapsed on 31 May when it officially became a republic.South Africa's Commonwealth membership was restored in 1994, although it remains a republic.AssassinationOn 16 April1960, Verwoerd was shot and injured by David Pratt while opening the Rand Easter Show at MilnerPark, Johannesburg. Pratt was declared insane and sent to a psychiatric institution in Bloemfontein, committing suicide a few months later.In 6 September1966, Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the House of Assembly by Dimitri Tsafendas, a parliamentary clerk, who escaped the death penalty on the grounds of insanity, saying that a large worm in his stomach told him to kill Verwoerd.Tsafendas's motive for killing Verwoerd remains unclear. Tsafendas had a Mozambican mother and, although not racially classified as a "coloured", he had dark skin. This may have played a role, since he had recently fallen in love with a coloured woman. He had applied for reclassification as a coloured, since sexual relations between people of different races were illegal under apartheid.It is also unclear to what degree the murder was a political act. The trial of Tsafendas dealt mainly with the question of whether he was capable of fully understanding the consequences of his actions, and possible motives were never discussed. The attorney general alleged that Tsafendas was a "hired killer", but this was not accepted by Judge Beyers, who ordered Tsafendas to be imprisoned indefinitely at the "State President's pleasure."Verwoerd's funeral took place on 10th September1966.

The world has to take stock of the South African Government which of power, has:

Suspended the deportation orders against Nazi Germans interned during the war;

Released Robey Leibrandt, who was landed in South Africa during the war by a German submarine and subsequently convicted of high treason. Released also all the other members of the German fifth column;

Announced that war-internees would be eligible for compensation to a maximum of 20,000 per head;

Raised the ban on two subversive organisations, the Broederbond and the Ossewa Brandwag;

Suspended the training of Native artisans outside the reserves;

Undertaken to separate the races in the trade unions, and hinted at the possibility of the formation of a Labour Front on the Hitlerite model;

Raised all restrictions on the movement of South-West African German ex-internees;

Rebuffed the International Labour Organisation by refusing permission to its delegation to visit South Africa;

Undertaken to amend the Unemployment Insurance Act and in the interim period, to cut benefits to non-European workers to a minimum;

Taken steps to set up a platteland army, corresponding to the S.S. troops in Nazi Germany;

Taken steps to extend the Ghetto Act to the Cape;

Further restricted the freedom of travel of non-Europeans by segregating them on suburban Cape trains, the only trains that had remained free from the segregation laws of South Africa;

Removed the so-called representation clauses of the Ghetto Act (the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act of 1946) which was used as a pretext to justify further land and residential restrictions on the Indian people. It was also designed to soften the storm of indignation aroused by the Act, which snatched away the inherent rights of the citizen of the country to live wherever he wishes because he was an Indian, and relegated him to limited, inferior areas which, in the course of time, became ghettos. The Justice Lange Commission of 1920 has described this segregation policy in the following words: "Indiscriminate segregation of Asiatics in localities and similar restrictive measures would result, and eventually reduce them to a state of helotry. Such measures, apart from their injustice and inhumanity, would degrade the Asiatics and react upon the Europeans."

Decided to introduce legislation to take away the last bit of franchise rights of the Africans who hitherto in the Cape would return three White candidates, called Native Representatives, to an Assembly of 150 White members;

Threatened to stop the entry of the handful of non-white students into even the two universities which alone permitted a limited number of non-white students;

Introduced amendments to the electoral laws designed primarily to reduce the number of Coloured voters on the common roll;

Announced its intention to remove altogether the Coloured voters of the Cape from the common roll, and to give them indirect representation in Parliament through three White members, the first step to complete disenfranchisement, as is shown by the case of the Africans who were treated in the same way at first;

Announced its intention to stop payment of family allowances to Indians;

Introduced Proclamation 1890 which will make it illegal for any organisation, political, trade union, or social, to collect subscriptions from Africans without prior approval of the Minister. This measure has been introduced with the set purpose of destroying all democratic organisations of the African people

Was Apartheid Really The Most Evil Regime In The World?How does one measure evil? Is there such a thing as a universal 'index' according to which deeds of evil can be judged? If we, for example, take the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the final arbiter of what is evil and what is not, how could we then judge Zimbabwe as being more evil than, for example, China and Saudi Arabia – two countries enjoying marvelous ties with the West despite their abysmal human rights records. Is this blatant hypocrisy, or just the obligatory Real Politic of individual nations surviving in a cynical world where might (financial, military, etc) is right?

Be that as it may; it would be quite an interesting exercise to give Joe and Jane Average a list of five words to rank according to the evilness 'index' of the West. For example; take the words Apartheid, Gowon, Mengisthu, Hutu, and Kim IL Sung, and then give them a number, 1 – 5, on a scale of the evil they signify. Try it.

It would not be surprising if your ranking closely resembles the original order of the words I listed. The last four words will most probably be vaguely familiar and have some negative connotations, whereas the first word, Apartheid, is guaranteed to conjure up images of the most evil kind. The question now obviously is whether evil is evil most foul simply because you know about it, especially in view of the fact that the above four words that you are not really familiar with denote genocides of a million and more.

Did you know that fewer than 2000 people were deliberately killed by security forces in South Africa during the 42 years of Apartheid? And did you know that 90% of all the politically motivated deaths during Apartheid (total 20 000) was due to Black-on-Black (mostly tribal) violence? 20 000 too many of course, but seen against the background of the never-ending vilification of white South Africans, the four million-man genocides mentioned above and innumerable unknown other evils like, for example, Robert Mugabe's Knighthood, awarded by the Queen while he was massacring 21 000 Ndebeles in 1984, surely must illustrate that selective (media-borne) knowledge of evil can never be the ultimate criteria when putting together an 'index' of universal evil.

Lest I stand accused of quantifying evil, let us examine the reason why Apartheid's 2000 dead in 42 years is judged as being more evil than, amongst others, Pol Pot's 2 million dead in 4 years and Rwanda's 1 million dead in 3 months. Apartheid South Africa was ruled by whites, and whites (the West) demand that their kin, wherever they may find themselves on this lonely planet, act according to the moral standards they have set themselves, be it those inherent in human rights, democracy or capitalism. Whenever a white nation transgresses, it is punished till it conforms….and rightly so.

Noble and honorable indeed the West's moral hegemony is, especially given the fact that none of the other races bother to do so at all. Japan can't be bothered (except financially) by China's human rights abuses, neither can black South Africa by Mugabe's horror regime, or Saudi Arabia by the Taliban's madness. Different moral strokes for different colored folks, it would seem.

But then, the West has always been on a mission…..to make existence as livable as possible, for all humanity. A quest not easily undertaken or brought to fruition, especially when living in the moral outskirts of progressive human existence. ..like in Africa. Did you know that the life expectancy of black South Africans nearly equaled that of Europeans during the last decade of Apartheid? Did you know that the black population nearly trebled during Apartheid? Did you know that black South Africans had the highest per capita income and education levels in Africa during Apartheid? No, of course you didn't….because your view of evil has already been defined.

Imagine being on a mission…to rid your surrounding world of primitive ignorance, and then you stumble across the last hurdle (the final acknowledgement of universal human rights, democracy, etc) – not because you wanted to….but because your fellow runners simply refuse to acknowledge its existence. Whites

Even now, having lost over a million whites to emigration (which also brings with it benefits - like the links overseas which Afrikaners never had before, which should be exploited), we still number 4.2 million.

There are many countries in this world with a population of less than 4.2 million. Israel, the super power of the Middle East, had less than 4.2 million Jews until the influx of Soviet immigrants after 1988. In Europe you'll find many small countries with populations much less than the white population of South Africa. New Zealand, too, has a smaller population that we have here!

We Whites are not finished yet. We are vastly outnumbered, but far from finished. We are still quite a sizeable number - more than enough to form a small, but plucky nation.

However, the Liberals here are always groveling at the feet of the ANC. They actually help to make the ANC look respectable by co-operating with them. The Liberals are masters of the Female response - which is why the Liberals will never be able to save this country. They will remain victims forever and they will be attacked and pushed back forever.

We need to get away from the Female response to evil and embrace a more "male" personality if you will. I'd define the Male Response as: If you hit me, I’ll hit you back.

The advantage of the Male Response is that it is the only way to deal with someone who uses force against you. It solves the problem that the Female response cannot.

The Male Response has one other huge advantage - survival. When you push back and fight back, you actually are vastly increasing your chances of survival. You fight not to kill, but to survive. If you just stand around like a victim, your chances of actually being killed are much greater. History shows that whenever people gathered together in groups and fought together to defend themselves their chances of survival were so much greater.

The principle and concept remains true throughout history - everywhere. When people stick together and fight together as a unit, their chances of survival as a group are much greater. It’s definitely the way to save lives - our lives!

The Male Response is the surest path to survival - if nothing else. At best, the Male Response may lead to a turning of tables and to the victim becoming the victor. There are many historical examples of small nations being pounded on and being kicked around by larger nations. The smaller, but spirited nations eventually may have defeated and even completely destroyed those who bullied them incessantly. Alexander the Great's empire was the result of just such bullying